The Celtic Underground – Slamming The Window Shut

This week Mark Cooper joins Harry to discuss the summer transfer window which, in the usual fashion, closed without much Celtic business being done on the last day. The boys discuss whether it was good bad or indifferent and decide it was pretty good. It could have been better with perhaps one more signing but all in all we have a better squad than we started it with.

In addition to the transfer window the bhoys briefly touch on the Aberdeen game and the changes to the Champions League.

There is new music as usual, podcast recommendations and the Foundation.

Freakonomics -Inspired by the film this has different topics posed each week from an economists perspective. Such as the economics of sleep, is it okay for restaurants to racially profile their employees? or their recent interview with Malcolm Gladwell.

Thinking Allowed – Sociologist Laurie Taylor and guests have a topic and look at latest research into it – recent episode on the EDL recommended.

Adam Buxton podcast – Adam from the Adam & Joe show talks to other pop culture figures – usually a bit more alternative, such as Richard Ayoade or Kathy Burke.

No Such Thing as a Fish – from the producers of QI, show in which its presenters try to out-do each other with obscure facts and then explaining them. Always fascinating.

ALEX McLeish was visibly angered when it was suggested to him in fairly blunt terms that he, not a freakish catalogue of injuries, may have been the reason for so many players pulling out of the Scotland double header with Albania and Israel on Friday night.

IT would not be at all unlike Scotland, given their propensity over the years for snatching defeat and failure from the jaws of victory and glory, to slip up just when it matters most against Israel at Hampden this Tuesday evening.

ALEX McLeish last night denied there was anything “sinister” in the high number of withdrawals from the Scotland squad for the Nations League matches with Albania and Israel matches after Kieran Tierney became the ninth player to pull out.

ANDY Robertson last night stressed the call-offs from the Scotland squad ahead of the Nations League double header against Albania and Israel were all for genuine reasons and revealed that Kieran Tierney had been devastated when he was forced out.

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